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Title

Lowest I = 0 Proton Resonance in 26Si and Implications for Nucleosynthesis of 26 Al

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2009

Publication Title

Physical Review C

Volume Number

79

Issue Number

3

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevC.79.032801

Abstract

Using a beam of the radioactive isotope 25Al, produced with the new RESOLUT facility, we measured the direct (d,n) proton-transfer reaction leading to low-lying proton resonances in 26Si. We observed the lowest l=0 proton resonance, identified with the 3+ state at 5.914-MeV excitation energy. This result eliminates the largest uncertainty in astrophysical reaction rates involved in the nucleosynthesis of 26Al.

Comments

Additional authors: A. Rojas, A. Volya

ISSN

0556-2813

First Page

032801-1

Last Page

032801-5

Link Out URL

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.79.032801

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